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Institution, reports made by officers of the Signal Service under sci- 

 entific instruction from the Smithsonian. Professor Baird places a 

 very high estimate upon them. One of them has been ordered to be 

 printed by the Senate. This one costs but $1,500 for the whole 

 number, the regular number and the additional copies. There are 

 some illustrations, but not expensive ones. 



Mr. P. B. Plumb. I should like to ask the Senator f i-om Connecti- 

 cut if anybody in connection with the Smithsonian Institution writes 

 anything which is not printed at public expense ? 



Mr. Hawley. That is an indefinite question. I am unable to answer. 

 I suppose whatever they write that is valuable gets printed either by 

 their own funds or b}' the vote of Congress. 



Mr. Plumb. The question as to whether it is valuable, I think, if 

 submitted to the ordinary test applied to the emanations of other peo- 

 ple, would probably be decided against the value of the work that is 

 published. I do not know mj^self of any person in Government 

 employ, except Senators and Members of Congress, who have a right 

 to write anything they please and have it printed at the Government 

 Printing Ofiice. I should like to hear of anybody else. If any per- 

 son knows of anyone who is authorized thus to inflict upon the taxing 

 power of the people what he has to say, I should like to hear of it. 



The President pro tempore. The question is on agre^ng to the 

 resolution. 



The resolution was agreed to. 

 July 17. 1886— House. 



Passed. 



turner's report on ALASKA. 



January 20, 1886— Senate. 



Mr. C. F. Manderson introduced a concurrent resolution to print 

 report of L. M. Turner on Alaska. 



Referred. 

 February 10, 1886— Senate. 



Mr. Joseph R. Hawley, from Committee on Printing, reported a 

 concurrent resolution : 



Resolved, etc., That the report on Alaska, by L. M. Turner, be printed with the 

 necessary iUustrations, and that 4,000 additional copies be printed, of which 1,000 

 copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 2,000 copies for the use of the House of 

 Representatives, and 1,000 copies for distribution under the direction of the Chief 

 Signal Officer of the United States Army. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. John Sherman). Is there objec- 

 tion to the present consideration of the resolution ? 



Mr. Preston B. Plumb. I object. 



The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas objects to 

 the present consideration of the resolution, and it goes over under the 

 rules. 



